Brio Software, represented locally by AST Enterprise Management Solutions, announced that Toyota Motor Sales, USA, has deployed Brio to provide employees with the ability to perform powerful data analysis and informal inquiries from multiple divisions across the enterprise.
Additionally, Brio will improve Toyota`s overall business performance by enabling intelligent access from multiple warehouses and production applications, such as Oracle, DB2, Redbrick and AS400.
Brio Software is a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools and applications that help Global 3000 companies achieve breakthrough business performance.
As a preferred business intelligence tool and application supplier within Toyota, Brio Software provides over 1 200 users the ability to create queries/reports and analyse data on automotive logistics, customers, marketing and financials. Analysts are able to strategically dissect data warehoused on a nightly basis and tactically manage data queried directly from Operational Data Stores on a real-time basis.
"Brio is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the local business intelligence market, especially in the manufacturing and automotive industries," says Andrew Cook, Manager Business Intelligence at AST ESM.
"Manufactures can reap tangible rewards and reduce TCO from deploying Brio within its business performance framework, utilising Brio`s performance builder technology to track and measure business metrics, and provide meaningful KPI`s and balanced scorecards."
Prior to the implementation of Brio, Toyota analysts created reports from mainframe text extracts - a rigorous and time-intensive process. With the adoption of Brio`s business intelligence tools and applications, Toyota associates now have immediate access to business-critical information. For example, calculation of a key business component - the average cost per unit for moving vehicles - was reduced from a quarterly weeklong process involving several analysts to an automated report that is published daily.
Analysts are empowered to make faster, more accurate decisions by accessing and analysing data from disparate data sources throughout the organisation. Additionally, Toyota analysts are able to identify opportunities and issues in time to take appropriate action, simplify business processes throughout the organisation, and convey business information to associates, suppliers and partners.
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Brio Software is a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools and applications that help Global 3000 companies achieve breakthrough business performance. Widely recognised as one of the easiest-to-use and deploy solutions in the industry, the Brio Performance Suite expands business intelligence beyond advanced query and analysis technologies to include powerful information delivery through enterprise-class reporting and personalised performance dashboards. Used by nearly 70% of the Fortune 100, Brio products empower individuals, workgroups and executives in an organisation to turn enterprise information into actionable insight, so superior decisions and business performance result.
AST Group
In just three years the AST Group has established itself as one of the leading information and communication technology companies on the JSE Securities Exchange. Its consistent creation of value for shareholders, clients and employees has resulted in a steady increase in monthly revenue to the R100 million plus mark.
AST is now the fourth largest South African IT company by market capitalisation, and is one of the top three in terms of physical infrastructure (mainframes, servers, desktops, and networks under management) and geographical footprint with over 62 physical locations. Counting almost 90% of the top 100 JSE-listed companies among its clients, the AST Group services mostly large corporate and government clients, but is increasingly offering services to rapidly evolving small and medium enterprises.
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